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Today, our entire existence, spirituality and the purpose of culture, together with the survival of cultural events such as the International Small Scenes Theatre Festival in Rijeka (which has existed for more than twenty years) have all been put into question. A slogan fitting to this modern reality and our fears and anxieties would be: "The theatre and modern times: from splendour to despair". Already seven years ago, we knew that the then-nascent crisis was not solely economic in nature, and that it was not merely a transitory phenomenon of limited scope. Today, we know that the very foundations of our notions of civilised life have been disturbed, as an increasing number of people are desperate, hungry and have lost faith in political solutions, while life itself has become a dangerous affair. On the other hand, technological development has become a force of terrific proportions, while the human superstructure has dissolved through worldview clashes and technological pragmatism. In such a climate of dissatisfaction, digital alienation and economic selfishness, the human race is at risk for contracting new global neuroses, which have already started to appear from all ends, while our glorious civilisation today is, paradoxically, torn between splendour and despair. The plays that we have selected aim to describe the current state of the world - or at least to provide some food for thought. We believe that, among these plays, you will certainly be able to find traces of those problems that are preoccupying you: the arrogance of modern people who live for spending and entertainment while forgetting their own responsibilities in Bourgeoisie by the Theatre on the Balustrade (Divadlo na Zabradli) from Prague; crisis, love and despair in Kazimir and Karolina by "Atelje 212" from Belgrade; human irrationality, limited thinking and backwardness in The Broken Jug by Jugoslav Dramma Theatre; or perhaps war, violence and the destructive nature of humankind in Aleksandra Zec by the HKD Theatre in Rijeka. On offer will also be tales about modern demons i.e. A Short Story on the Antichrist by the Bitef theatre from Belgrade; on manipulation and one-upmanship in The Lesson by the national theatre "I. L. Caragiale" from Bucharest; on loneliness and terrorism in The Cellphone by the theatre "Moruzgva" from Zagreb; and on the eros of destruction in the play Hedda Gabler by the Slovenian National Theatre from Maribor.

NTB’s The Tempest will be present on the stage of the Hungarian National Theatre (Budapest) on the 25th of April 2015, along with other great productions, actors and renowned directors. Present for the second time in one of the most ambitious European theatre festivals, MITEM (Madach International Theatre Meeting), organized by the National Theatre in Budapest, with the support of the Hungarian government, “I. L. Caragiale” National Theatre of Bucharest will present the show The Tempest by William Shakespeare, directed by Alexander Morfov, starring Ion Caramitru. NTB marked its presence at the previous edition of the festival with the performance Lottery Tickets by I. L. Caragiale, directed by Alexandru Dabija, which enjoyed substantial success, being extensively commented and rated. The second edition of MITEM Festival will take place between 14 – 28th of April 2015 in the capital of Hungary and will have, as its central theme, the Actor and his art. The event in Budapest will bring together 20 performances from 13 countries, prestigious companies and theatrical productions, signed by important European and non-European directors: Matthias Langhoff, Toni Servillo, Luk Perceval, Emma Dante, Eugenio Barba, Viktor Rizakov and many others. It is highly important for us to notice the way national theatres, along with independent companies, directors, playwrights and theatre experts from all around the world react to the transformations of the 21st century, says Attila Vidnyánszky, General manager of the National Theatre of Budapest. In a world marked, on one hand, by globalization and, on the other, by new divisions, especially in Europe, art – and theatre, in particular – is a source of novelty, fruitfulness and provocative ideas that influence our everyday life. It is important for us to be able to meet and communicate with artists of various nationalities, to admire each other’s work and to try to understand one another. In this way, we will be able to discover ourselves in others, to discover them in us, because after a certain point, our purposes no longer differ. I feel that this meeting will bring about such a vision, a broader perspective on things. We want the MITEM productions to be to become experiences shared by artists, the public and theatre experts alike. That is why, in the title of the festival, I included the term “meeting”, through which we wish to transmit the importance of cooperation and the idea of “togetherness”, as opposed to that of competition.                                                                This is the first international participation of The Tempest, which premiered in April 2014, and the second meeting of the well-known Bulgarian director with the cast and members of the Romanian NTB, after having directed The Visit of the Old Lady in 2011. MITEM Festival is, once again this year, part of Budapest Spring Festival, one of the most significant European festivals dedicated to all arts. According to Péter Hoppál, the Hungarian Secretary of State for Culture: Budapest should expect an open and stillisticaly diverse encounter. The intercultural meetings, the cooperation and approach to other’s ideas and creation will encourage all theatre artists to renew and perfect their works and, at the same time, to become more connected to their own culture and traditions. Translated by Ioana Axenoi Pănescu   Details  

The I.L. Caragiale National Theatre of Bucharest will present, under the motto “Theatre – the hero of our times”, 11 plays from 10 countries – signed by known directors, such as: Andriy Zholdak, Ivan Dobchev, David Doiashvili, Spiro Duni etc. – and two NETA co-productions in premiere, at the NETA 2015 International Theatre Festival, which will take place between August 28 – September 4, 2015. The participating countries are: Albania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Russia and Romania.NETA – New European Theatre Action, a network which includes the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre in Bucharest as a founding member, is based in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and brings together 67 members (national theaters, companies, festivals) from 19 European countries, thus being the largest theater association of this type in Europe. The quality of the NETA projects has recently been acknowledged at the European level, as it has received a substantial European funding from EACEA (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency). An active participant in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, NETA network aims at coalescing the creative energies of this region, contributing to their promotion and dissemination, as well as identifying and building a cultural specificity, a certain way of making theatre in the 21st century – all in a productive and fruitful dialogue with the West and beyond, in the spirit of a “culture without borders”.NETA 2015 International Festival, organized in Bucharest the same year in which the network celebrates its 10th anniversary, will present some of the most representative theatrical productions of its NETA member theatres and companies, to be hosted on the NTB stages. This will also see the fulfillment of two proposals envisioned by Ion Caramitru, General Director of the NTB, since 2013, to encourage cultural exchange throughout South Eastern Europe and at the same time, to launch Bucharest’s unique cultural ensemble, the NTB - which has been fully reshaped following vast reconstruction works - into the international circuit. The selection of the shows to be performed in Bucharest belongs to a jury consisting of three personalities from the international theatre scene: Blagoja Stefanovski, NETA President and Art Director of the Small Drama Theatre Bitola (MK), Damir Domitrović, NETA General Secretary and Director of EX Ponto International Theatre Festival, Ljubljana (Slovenia), and George Banu, theatrologist and Honorary President of IATC – The International Association of Theatre Critics, professor at Sorbonne, Paris (France).The event in Bucharest will mark the first confrontation of artists from South Eastern Europe with the public and theatre creators in Romania, but also with guests from abroad – theatre critics, journalists, festival directors, project coordinators.Reunited in Bucharest, on February 27th 2015, during a meeting with the organizing team of the NETA Festival, the three members of the jury decided on the final list of the participating performances. Themes related to Nationality, Emigration, the search for Identity, as well as the relationship between Theatre and Reality seem to constitute the common denominator of the selected titles, themes which will, no doubt, be the source and subject of debates, roundtables and other complementary events which will top the festival’s program.Bucharest will, thus, offer the premiere of an international cultural event, all under one, symbolical “hat” - that of the newly reconstructed I.L. Caragiale National Theatre of Bucharest. The capital of Romania will be transformed, for several days, into a genuine platform of dialogue, and will act as a mediator between different cultural spaces, belonging to one of the most fertile geopolitical, strategic and cultural junctions of contemporary Europe.